Hannah Takes the Stairs

Smart and engaging, but too many meandering breeze-shooting sequences.

It's never enough to establish any sensitivity or social pertinence beyond the trifling tiffs which are playing out on screen.

There's only so much twentysomething navel-gazing one can listen to before wanting to slap some sense - and some fully formed sentences - into them all.

Hannah Takes the Stairs isn't a complete disaster, but I felt relieved when it ended. And I regret that it will, for some, be their introduction to mumblecore.